Post #43876 by McDougall on Mon, Jul 21, 2003 8:53 PM

Read this thread Friday night and spent the weekend making Mai Tai's. Read all the provided recipes and my own books and set out to get ingrediants, little did I know. The booze was easy. The first good liquor store I found Appleton estates, had like 3 different types and I got the most aged. Also got pussers because I'm a limey and it was mentioned in this thread as a substitute for the Martinique Rum which noone had. As far as Orgeat forget about it. Even went to Mai Kai looking but giftstore closed to 630. No liquor store, no grocery nothing, noone even had heard of it. Went to get some potstickers at a intenational food store and saw Alomond syrup, store owner says he drinks it 3 to one with water, I got it. No rock candy syrup, forget it, get grenadine. Fresh limes are found. Didn't bother with mint, to thirsty at this point. Have to get blue caracau because noone has orange. Hours later I'm home and mixing while the friends beat ice on the concrete for crushed ice. Steaks are getting cold noone cares. Mix it up 2 oz Appleton, 1 1/2 oz pussers, 1 oz blue curucau (duykerpers), 1 oz almond syrup, 1 oz grenedine (I'm a sweettooth), 2 1/2 good size well sqoozed limes, twirlled in ice and poured over my crushed and stomped ice inside my new Moai mugs, straws provided, umbrellas needed! Was good good good, better after tweaking hear and there (more rum!). Will order TV Orgeat and rock syrup asap. Mahalo you all for setting the new tikiphile on his first Mai tai frenzy, will be more.